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Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon Project. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2008 Horizon Report, which was co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and released publicly January 29, 2008. (more...)
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Creating a Shared Research Agenda -- taking the Horizon Report into the field
STATUS: This phase is underway and we are actively collecting suggestions and ideas -- please help us by adding your perspective!
Each year, the NMC leads a concerted, international effort to define a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education. The effort reflects and embodies the NMC's interest in new scholarship, a major NMC focus area initiative. The completed research agenda is designed to encourage a deeper level of understanding around each of the topics in the Report.
The results from last year's effort were published in October 2007 as the 2007-08 Call to Scholarship 
See the Press release
The 2008 Horizon Report Wiki -- everything behind the report is here
The Sandbox was our primary work area, and you will find links there to a range of discussions and activities. the sandbox evolved over time as we moved through the various processes involved in sorting through the technologies and issues we dealt with on the way to the final list featured in the 2008 Horizon Report. As we completed work, those aspects dropped to the sections below the Sandbox so that we could continue to refer that those efforts easily. Status and process advisories helped us to know what we were being asked to do each week.
In addition to the Sandbox is a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, links, and RSS feeds we gathered to inform our work. The items in these areas continue to be meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!
A special section related to the Advisory Board follows the Web 2.0 area, and we round out the wiki with a look back to previous year's reports. Included here are active discussions from current and past advisory board members on the current state of some of the technologies we thought would be important. We'd like to know your views, as many of these are still relevant to our work.
The 2008 Horizon Report Semi-Finalists -- the "Short List"
The Short List, a list of 12 semifinalist topics determined from the rankings of the responses to the Research Questions below, was a precursor to the final report, and provides our initial summaries of the topics that appear in the report, as well as those for six additional areas that did not make the final cut. The Short List was used to help Advisory Board members in the final rankings process.
Readers are encouraged to add comments, examples, or links to any of the topics via the discussion pages below:
- Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- Key Trends
- Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community
- Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate
- The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship
- As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal
- Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability
- The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow
- The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation
- Critical Challenges
- Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship
- Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers
- There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy
- There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy
- Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices
- The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment
Our Research Process: Findings and Rankings
how we collected and sorted our ideas
STATUS: The data collection part of the process is completed, as are the initial rankings that were used to produce the Short List, and the final rankings used to winnow down the semifinalists to the final set of topics.
For a detailed discussion of the methodology behind the Horizon Project, please see the Methodology Pages
First Pass Rankings -- this phase completed November 16, 2007
Note: Each ranker was allowed 10 votes per question, and multiple votes were encouraged as way of indicating relative importance. Within the rankings, numbers not in parentheses represent the total votes; numbers in parentheses indicate the number of people voting for an item.
General notes used to guide answers to the research questions Ranking Instructions
- Summary of the First-Pass Rankings
- Research Question 1: Ranking Summary
- Research Question 2: Ranking Summary
- Research Question 3: Ranking Summary
- Research Question 4: Ranking Summary
- Research Question 5: Ranking Summary
- Sample Ranking form
Second Pass Rankings -- this phase completed December 12, 2007
For the second pass rankings, the Advisory Board used a reverse-selection process in which each member was asked to eliminate one topic from each adoption horizon. After the rankings were complete, only the final six topics remained.
Where Are They Now? -- A review of past Horizon Reports
- Where are they now? — 2007 Horizon Report
- Where are they now? — 2006 Horizon Report
- Where are they now? — 2005 Horizon Report
- Where are they now? — 2004 Horizon Report
Press Clippings & Reports -- technology news and reports to inform our work
- Emerging Technologies
- Challenges and Trends
- Published 'Technologies to Watch' Lists
- Technology in Popular Culture
- Reports and Research
- Miscellanea -- Stories, Examples, Food for Thought
- Essays and Interviews on the Future
Additional Resources
Emerging News and Useful Resources
